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B. L. BUSHNELL 86 G. W. DRYER.

CAR SEAT.

No. 476,729. Patented June 7, 1892.

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- UNITED STATES EDIVIN L. BUSHNELL AND GEORGE WV.

PATENT OFFIoE.

DRYER, OF POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW

YORK, ASSIGNORS TO THE E. L. BUSHNELL SPRING COMPANY, LIMITED,

OF SAME PLAGE.

CAR SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,729, dated June 7,1892. Application filed March 12, 1892. Serial No. 424,723- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, EDWIN L. BUSHNELL and GEORGE IV. DRYER, citizens ofthe United States of America, residing at Poughkeepsie, in the county ofDutchess and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Oar-Seats, of which the following is a specification. 7

Our invention is an improvement upon the construction of reversing meansfor car-seats shown in an application filed by us on the 15th ofDecember, 1891, Serial No. 415,131, and is designed to effect the sameresult by means of a much simpler construction and arrangement, all ashereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the endframe of a carseat, showing the improved arrangement of strikenarm andsupplemental arm. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on line 00 0c of Fig. 1.

\Vhile we prefer to use a supplemental arm in connection with astriker-arm at each end of the car-seat, we do not limit ourselves tothis connection, as our improved construction may be found sufficient ifused at one end, with the ordinary pivoted striker-arm at the other.

In the figures the end frame A is of ordinary construction, and pivotedto the lower part of the end frame is the striker-arm B, pivoted at itsupper end to the ordinary plate I), which is adapted for attachment tothe end of the back. Upon the arm B is pivoted a supplemental arm E, thepivot e of which works in a slot, permitting slight longitudinalmovement of the supplemental arm, as well as a pivotal movement therein.The upper end of the supplemental arm is also pivoted to the ear of theplate Z), at f, between the pivot of the striker-arm and the peripheryof the ear. The lower end of the supplemental arm is connected to theseat-frame by means of a pivot g, which passes through a slot f in thelower end of the striker-arm, which is struck from the pivot d as acenter, so as to permit the free pivotal movement of said arm withoutinterference by reason of the position of the pivot g. This pivot g isarranged in the same vertical line as the pivot cl of the striker-armand is of course stationary, being fixed in the seat-frame, and theresult of the construction is to produce precisely the same result asthe more complex arrangement shown in our application referred to, andenables us to dispense with the intermediate link shown in saidapplication as a means of connection between the end of the supplementalarm and the pivot g, connection being made in the present case directlybetween the lower end of the said arm and the pivot. As the back ismoved on the pivots connecting it with the striker-arms the turning ofthe back shifts the striker-arm on the pivot (Z until the back is in ahorizontal seat, at which time both the supplemental and striker armsare in a vertical position, and further movement of the back andstriker-arm shifts the striker-arm to its extreme limit of its movementin the other direction and re- 0 stores the back to approximatelyvertical position.

YVe claim as our invention- 1. In combination, striker-arms pivoted on asuitable support, a seat-back pivoted to the striker-arms, and asupplemental arm pivoted so as to have slight longitudinal movement onone of said striker-arms and to the back, the lower end of thesupplemental arm being piv otally connected to the seat-arm frame below8c the pivot of the striker-arm, substantially as described.

2. In combination, striker-arms pivoted on suitable supports, aseat-back pivoted on the striker-arms, a supplemental arm pivoted so asto have slight longitudinal movement on one of said striker-arms, acurved slot in the lower end of one of said striker-arms, a projection gon the frame, extending through said slot, and a pivoted connectionbetween the upper end of said supplemental arm and the back, the lowerend of the arm being pivoted on the projection g, substantiall 1 asdescribed.

In testimony whereof we affix on r signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

EDWIN L. BUSHNELL.

. GEORGE WV. DRYER.

Witnesses:

ROB. F. WILKINSON, CHAS. F. OossuM.

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